Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amiable Doris May Koht of Reinbeck, Iowa. The first time she saw him, he was waiting on table. "He wore nose glasses," she recalls, "and looked more like a professor than he does now." After a series of unromantic dates (they spent one hunting frogs) and a number of awkward starts, Lee finally proposed. But it was another four years before the marriage actually took place...
...misconception than Miss Shoop's perversity. The Step-mother, Miss Adams, has a little trouble overcoming an inadvertent smirk at the beginning, but she soon masters her urbanity and by the end is consummately cruel. When the Prince, Keith Gardiner, is singing, he is fine, but otherwise he is awkward, as is the King, Michael Pollatsek. Pollatsek, however, is supposed to be funny. One only wonders why he adopted the manner of a melodrama villain. The Fairy Godmother's Oriental shuffle is likewise a puzzlement...
...NATO meeting in Paris, the Germans will be accepted as partners in the Atlantic Alliance. The biggest remaining snag-Franco-German differences over a Saar steel mill-was ironed out last week when Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay met in Bonn and disposed of the awkward details...
...Slow and clumsy, and just about the only man in the house who did not know he was through as a fighter, former Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles stumbled around the ring in Miami for nine rounds before he finally dropped under the awkward flailing of a third-rate pug named John Holman...
...more than 200 years, science had accepted Newton's laws of motion as unalterable. In easily parsed schoolboy terms, they seemed to explain everything, from the behavior of gases to the nature of heat. But in the 1880s, more sensitive instruments were uncovering awkward phenomena, particularly in the physics of light. These phenomena operated in open violation of Newton's laws. To make Newton's physics work, scientists presumed the existence of a substance called ether, which they thought was necessary to carry light waves through space. But experiments soon proved that ether does not exist. Scientists...